THIS IS ABOUT INTEGRITY. SPECTER MUST GO.
Posted on 11/08/2004 5:26:23 PM PST by mdittmar
Sen. Arlen Specter pledged on Monday not to oppose Supreme Court nominees just because they are anti-abortion as the moderate Republican fought to keep alive his bid to head the Senate panel that oversees judicial nominations.
"Absolutely not, and it's not just what I'm saying — I have done it. I have not applied a litmus test, and have voted to confirm pro-life judges," he said in a television interview.
But conservative critics kept calling for someone other than the Pennsylvania senator to be Judiciary Committee chairman in the newly elected Congress, and other Senate Republicans said little or nothing in Specter's defense.
Specter, who favors keeping abortion legal, is in line to replace the more conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, as chairman based on seniority.
Peterson Jury Urged to Keep an Open Mind N.J. Governor Delivers Farewell Address Moderate Senator Fights for Top Judiciary Post He angered conservatives last week by saying he thought it unlikely the newly elected Senate — even with its Republican majority expanded to 55 — would confirm a Supreme Court nominee who wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case legalizing abortion.
The question of who wields the gavel in the Judiciary Committee is crucial. President Bush may make several nominations to the Supreme Court during his second term because Chief Justice William Rehnquist is ailing and other judges are thought to be close to retirement.
The Senate is expected to pick a chairman next week. First, the Republican members of the committee must nominate the chairman by secret ballot. Then, according to party rules, another secret ballot vote is taken by all Senate Republicans.
If they reject the committee's recommendation, the matter is sent back to committee with instructions for it to nominate someone else.
We've got Specter where we want him, on the record as "not going to oppose Bush's nominees.
Not the time for bloodletting IMHO.
Ai carumba! Spector is a LIBERAL -- why can't we get the democrat media to tell it like it is? "Moderate" -- sheesh!
Moderate?
Never, never, never, Specter.
ModerateLeft of center Senator Fights for Top Judiciary Post
Much more accruate title!
THIS IS ABOUT INTEGRITY. SPECTER MUST GO.
It's long past the deadline for Senator Specter to come on over to the "dark side". A Republican imitating a Democrat is really not a wholesome spectacle anyway.
After hearing Karl Rove on two Sunday shows,
I am all for letting the WH handle Specter.
Progressive=Socialist
Moderate Republican=Socialist
A moderate what? A moderate liberal maybe.
First off, Arlen Specter is NOT a "moderate." That's the Leftist media carrying water for him.
Second, if given the choice between letting Specter screw us AGAIN and kicking him off the Judiciary Committee, I'll opt for the latter. I'll never forget or forgive his squandering of the Clinton impeachment.
So, in the final analysis, TO HELL WITH SPECTER.
No, we don't.
He is still in the Senate.
This is exactly why RINOs ought to be bumped off in primaries, senority being a huge liability in this case.
There's an old saying which goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
I'm not about to let Specter fool us twice. Specter's got to go. Anyone who leaves him in place to slither out of the spot he's in is a fool.
I noticed that too.
"Moderate" is not correct.
He's an Eastern lib, with darn few GOP stances.
Law and order is all I can cite.
you've got to be kidding....he's a liberal...he lies....what he says on record means diddly.
let him do a Jeffords or give him some bs chair.
W and Rove and Santorum only supported him cause they feared Toomey would lose.
Let's look ahead a bit. Specter is a louse, but he's our louse. We don't have a big enough majority to toss him and let him drag Snow, Chaffey, Hagle, Collins and the other "moderates". Specter has given a pledge to support the nominees of the WH. The President and Rove are willing to work with Specter so should we.
Which of the senators are RINO's? (Republican in name only)
besides McCain and Spechter?
I'm just not a political junkie so I am not up on all this.
You can't kick him out of the Senate and what if the 4 or 5 other moderates decide they don't like how Specter is treated?
We do not have enough power to go on a witch burning spree right now.
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